AIR/SEA WARFARE in the S.W. PACIFIC
... When the big Japanese convoy recently started out from Rabaul, with the object of replenishing Lae and possibly other points with badly needed supplies, a serious departure from former practice became evident on the part of the enemy. Instead of sending single ships, or two or three, out at intervals with in structions to travel as much as possible by night and to take cover against wooded ...